With heads bowed and files bulging with forms and papers, the undocumented migrants — most of them from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti or Honduras — are waiting to meet specialists who can help their case. His remarks triggered a wave of panic, with undocumented migrants expecting immigration police to launch a series of raids in the days that followed. Even as Florida’s undocumented migrants were living in fear, Vice President Mike Pence was in Miami rallying “Latinos for Trump” ahead of next year’s elections. According to Pew Research, Florida has the third-highest number of undocumented migrants in the country, after California and Texas, with 825,000 of them in 2017. That is why Trump’s raids “could potentially impact many, many families here in South Florida,” Miami’s Archbishop Thomas Wenski told AFP.

Source: The Guardian June 27, 2019 10:41 UTC